So this is one similar to my Jesus chasing me blog, but even more disturbing. This is actually inspired by a friend from high school asking me when I knew I was gay and subsequently came out and then a college friend forwarding a myspace.com post about my recollection of 8th grade. So here goes...
When I was a kid, my next door neighbor was very clingy to me for awhile. There were not many kids on our block so it was inevitable. But I think he sort of idolized me in a way (never happened again, so I am only speculating about this) and it was like everything I did or had, he had to have as well.
For example, if I was eating a piece of cheese, he would run to his house and get a piece of cheese and come to my house, and they we were together eating cheese. So, as you know from the Jesus chasing me blog, my mind is terribly warped. So somehow, and I still do not know how, I had this revelation that his mother was the one putting him up to this and the conversation went something like this (on my head that is):
Mother: You have to do everything Sean does.
Son: Why?
Mother: Because if you don't. God will punish you!
Now, of course, this is ridiculous, and slightly self absorbed of me, but I was like 8 years old or something and I was imaging Jesus chasing me, so doesn't it follow?
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